Biostatistician

Washington State University • Spokane, WA

1d • $4,509 - $6,051 • Remote

About The Position

As the Biostatistician, you will provide analytic and statistical support for the Occupational Sleep Medicine Group (OSMG), which conducts transformative research to ensure health and safety through sleep, fatigue, and cognitive performance studies. Research foci within OSMG include, but are not limited to, studies involving pilots, athletes, and horse-human interactions, with a current emphasis on commercial aviation studies. You will join OSMG’s small but highly efficient team. The majority of your work involves developing analysis plans according to stated research goals; supporting studies with respect to database construction, cleaning data, checking data quality, and data analysis; writing methods and results sections for peer-reviewed manuscripts; and contributing to grant writing or other research efforts as assigned. As the Biostatistician, you will also participate in team meetings and keep full documentation of protocols, procedures, and code in an organized location on our server that can be used for direct replication. This is a fixed-term position; expected to end one year from date of hire. Position renewal will be contingent upon funding and/or need for extension.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other related field and professional experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified. Any equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.
• Expertise with R statistical programming or related software.
• Education or applied experience in correlated data analysis, including generalized estimating equations and random-effects modeling.
• Excellent communication skills, in particular the ability to clearly convey complex statistical concepts and analytic results to diverse audiences, including non-methodologist researchers and non-scientists, both in person, virtually and in writing.
• Proactive problem-solving skills, ability to work independently, and ability to take the appropriate autonomous initiative to carry out study-related functions and understand the full context of research study populations, research study focus area and reason for study.
• Ethical integrity and a strong commitment to confidentiality in dealing with scientific data and results.
• Excellent time management and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience working closely with diverse teams.

Nice To Haves

• Two (2) or more years of experience as a statistician in a related field.
• Experience working with one or more of our priority populations.
• Experience with cluster-randomized trials and machine learning.
• Experience using large datasets, including (but not limited to) longitudinal cohort data.
• Experience with harmonizing variables from multiple datasets.
• Demonstrated experience using SharePoint for collaboration.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of products.
• Experience preparing technical reports or manuscripts.

Responsibilities

• Developing analysis plans according to stated research goals
• Supporting studies with respect to database construction, cleaning data, checking data quality, and data analysis
• Writing methods and results sections for peer-reviewed manuscripts
• Contributing to grant writing or other research efforts as assigned
• Participating in team meetings
• Keeping full documentation of protocols, procedures, and code in an organized location on our server that can be used for direct replication

Benefits

• paid sick and vacation leave
• paid holidays
• medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents
• retirement
• deferred compensation
• optional supplemental retirement accounts
• training and development
• employee tuition waiver

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level